A SERIES OF MURDERS.
A WOMAN SUSPECTED. MATRIMONIAL AGENCY USED AS A LURE. United Press Association —Copyright (Received May 7, 10.56 p.m.) NEW YORK, Ma.v 7. After a fire at a farm at Indiana, four bodies, believed to bo thoso gf the occupier, Mrs. Bolle Guinos6, and her children, were discovered incinerated. . A farm hand named Lamphoro was charged with murdering the family v Since ho was arrested nine additional bodies havo been found roughly buried near. All are thought to have been murdered. .. , _ • The police now believe, that Mrs. Guinness escaped to Chicago after burning a strange woman and her children. The woman was decapitated to prevent identification. Tho other corpses are bolieved to havo included applicants lured to the house in response to Mrs. Guinness matrimonial agency advertisements. Tho applicants were then robbed and the insurance money collected by Mrs Guinness. . , , , Her first husband . is believed to have been poisoned, and there are indications that her second husband was murdered with a butcher s cleaver.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2185, 8 May 1908, Page 3
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167A SERIES OF MURDERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2185, 8 May 1908, Page 3
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